- With renunciation life begins.
Amelia Barr
- Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
Abraham Cahan
- For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
- The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps
- Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing
- The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert Parker
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
- We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert Hall
- There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
- You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
- You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.
John Cleese
- The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
- A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
- There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
- Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
- Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
- If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
- The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James
- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
John Dalberg-Acton
- The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
- To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman
- The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
- Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
Tom Wilson
- That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson
- My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard
- I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
Judy Collins
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
- Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
- To live is to think.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
John Wooden
- I am I plus my circumstances.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
- The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
- There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey
- To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
- Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
- You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
- While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright